Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Commission and the Missing Experts

Instead of an oil spill commission staffed with experts, as promised in his Oval Office address, the president has announced a panel with membership that reads like a Who's Who of radical environmentalism. Former Senator Graham of Florida, for example, has consistently pushed for a ban on oil drilling, and Frances Beinecke of the National Resources Defense Council has argued for the global warming agenda -- including linking "global poverty" to global warming, an argument used at the Copenhagen conference to support reparations to be paid to nations such as Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe for our supposed global crimes.
In fact, if you peruse the names of the council members, there isn't a single expert in oil drilling, oil platform rigs, or petroleum engineering. The panel's membership doesn't even include a single oil drilling company executive, or even a field engineer. In fact, the only technical-minded person on the commission at all is Cherry Murray, Dean of Harvard's Engineering School.

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Oh please do read the article to get a comprehensive view. I find it shocking that even in the face of this disaster, Obama attempts to make political hay.

Solid recommendations and decisive action was missing during the whole process of getting the Deepwater Horizon well under control. i kept wondering why? Now I understand given the make up of the watchdog panel Obama put in charge. While very bright people, they were clueless about oil exploration. Hence naive approaches and lack of expertise resulted in endless delays while the group underwent a steep learning curve at our and BP's expense. If there were not so many holdups on whether or not BP was allowed to proceed, the well would have (note not could have) been capped much sooner. Crap like this is totally frustrating. What in the hell was he thinking? Do you really want to insure the work to be done is sound and relevant information is gathered or do you want to train people in frontier oil exploration processes? It sure would have made much more sense to have the brightest experts working towards a solution than some ignorant group that is drowning in deep water because they are not trained in survival skills.

And to those of you who will jump to the defense of such a group, I say Bull Sh**. It is one thing to bring different line of expertise to bear during a brainstorming session and quite another to offer "professional" guidelines in disaster management. It is inexcusable.

I realize extrapolation of something like this is dangerous, but if this reflects the Modus operandi, we are indeed in deep sh**. Disgusted, Franz

I'm more frustrated by this today than when I first came across the article. How does anyone justify such action?

To me this is like going to the doctor's office with a medical problem and then having our government insist that all physicians must have their diagnosis evaluated and ok'ed by top flight economic experts they appointed to oversee all medical evaluations. Perhaps you would be ok with this but I sure as hell would object. When I'm in need of medical treatment I want medical not economic expertise. Simply stupid and insulting.

Good info Doc, and just think of all the other non-expert commissions out there in Obama land and Congress making our policy. Doubt this is the only one. Clueless bureaucrats and suits ruling the world!

They don't want experts telling them the truth. Its all a side show.

Great article Franz! Thanks.

NOT the first time this has happened......after the9/11 tragedy,the question of air quality and health concerns over the pulverized
building materials (dust) became a issue. ALL were assured the quality of the air was adequate to resume activity. Fast foreward to
today, the rescue workers and other groups in the area have been DENIED health benefit monies to cover the cost of EXTREME health
issues resulting from inhaling of pulverized cement,glass,drywall,ect. of the Twin Towers. WHO in their sane mind,wouldACCEPT the
results of BP/or the gov as the TRUTH????